Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1903, Page 7

WESTERN CROWTH HALTING — Population Figures Show Erst Oatohing Up on Regicn Nearer 8inking Sus. CENSUS BUREAU MAKES COMPARISONS Immigrat! Less Inelined to Roter Farming Country, Th th Fills Up Rapidly of Recent Years. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The census bureau has published as a bulletin a dis- cussion of the increass of population in the United States, as shown by the census of 1800, The principal results of the: study of | these figureé are summarized as follows: The increass in the population of the con- tinental United Statee—that Is, the United Btates exclusive of Alaska and the recent Insular accessions was 13,046,861, or 20.7 per cent. Only one country, Argentina, has shown by the most recent figures, a more rapid rate of growth. The present rate of Browth in continental United States is esti- mated a8 double the average rate of Bu- Fope. 1t is nearly equal to that of Canada, and exceeds by one-sixth that of Mexico 640 by one-tenth that of Australia ‘Ihe rates of increase on the two sides ©f the North Atlantic differ much less than they did a generation ago. Among the five main divisions of continental United States the highest rate of Increase is found in the western division, and the lowest in the north central. Among the eleven minor divisions the highest rate of growth is found In the Rocky mountain group of states, closely followed by the western south central; the lowest in the northern ®outh Atlantle, closely followed by the western morth central, In the decade, 15% to 19, for the first time o our national history, the southern states increased faster than the northern. Bast of the Missiasippi, however, the north- €rn states as & group, have grown In the Jast ten years somewhat more rapidly than &he southern, but west of that river the ®outhern states have Increased almost two and one-halt times as rapldly as the north- ern, and it is this fact which makes the Browth of the south as a whole exceed , that of the north. In the north Atlantic division the rate of increase has risen steadily since the civil war, a notable con- trast to the trend In the country as a ‘whole. The region west of the Mississippi river is still increasing faster than east of it; but the difference hetween the rates of growth in the two regions from 1890 to 1900, was little more than ons-fifth of what it was from 1880 to 18%0. The region east of the Mississippl increased more rapidly from 1890 to 10 than from 1880 to 189, while that ‘west of the Mississippl increased in the later decade not much more than half as fast as in the earlier. he conclusion Is drawn that the In- creased growth of the east and the de- creased growth of the west may both bs connected with a probable decin> In the current of westward migration. The rates of increase in the north and south during the last twenty yeirs were practically the mame. But in the character of this growth the two regions differ widely, there being & relatively uniform growth over the whole south, equaiized by a balance in the north bétween a lower rate of rural growth and & higher rate of urban growth. DLxtensive but sparsely settled areas in tgs western parts of Kansas, Netraska and South Da- kota show a decline of popu'ation in the last ten years, a fact which It is said may be connected with the increase of popu- lation In many agricultural counties of Town. 1llinols and adjoining states. ‘The most noteworthy result of the en- tire discussion, it is stated, ls the cumu- lative evidence of the rapld arproach t equality In the rates of increase of vi- rious parts of the United States. This ap- pears whether north be comgared with south, east with city, or city with country. ‘WIIL Ald Papers, Not Rallwaye. ‘The decision of the Postoffice department to allow baggigemasters to act as ous- todians of loose ncwspaper mail on cer- tain trains has been misconstrued in some places as an Intention to permit the in- discriminate swearing into the postal serv- 1ce of all rallway employes, and the de- partment has recelved a number of pro- tests, A specimen of these protests came today from a postmaster of one of the large -utern citios -na is as follows: Some days ago some of the newsyiper: lll’lblllle.‘ "t the PM\:.EN d(-;nrun'nl was contemplating the fssuuce of orders the effect of which wonld s to make every train of cars a mall train, and wl train employes, from vonductors don, yers to be sworn in as pontofice emplye< ight trains a air crows were to be incladed. The article stated tha: the roposed order was in cans of wtrixes. Replying, Second FPostmaster ‘iencral Bhellenbarger stated the position of the deumnm as follows: have not seen the newspaper article IAI which the above refacs. ind can only gy that it was not justified by ‘nymni o has ‘i contsmpdation a h\flfll‘lolll v law, ontenl m‘l" the pri u\'l“ ;l'llnrly nnp-p-r pakages piar o out- “. deltv vy ‘riovn Ordered to Mo Instructions have been given for the beginning of the movement of troops to and from the Philippines, which will eon- tinue during the autumn and winter. The Fourteenth cavalry and the Second bat- talion of the Seventh Infantry will sail on Logan on September 5. Colombia Taxzes Steamers. The Department of State has received a dispatch from the consul at Colon stating that for the purpose of meeting an expense incident to the maintainance of necessary quarantine and sanitary measures the gov- ernment of Panama has fssued a’decree temporarily establishing a tax of 100 pesos, Colomblan silver, on every steam or sail- ing vessel of more than 100,000 tons burden arriving at the ports of Panama or Colon, thie money to be kept as a separate fund 10 be expended for sanitary purposes. Coaling Treaties Ready. Minister Quesada of Cuba today an- nounced to the State department that the KEEP YOUR STOMACH WELL Horsford’s Acid Phosphate cures babitual n:-ul "k-.m, in- fridon "% X Horsford's - Acid Phosphate BEE: SATURDAY THE ILLUSTRATED BEE ONLV THE BEST GETS IN. That's another reason why The Illustrated Bee is so popu- ular. Tt never admits cheap things to its columns and never prints a picture without a good reason. Sen- sational or freak plctures, portraits of criminals and the like are never admitted to its columns. Its fllus- trations, Ifke f{ts contents, are always clean and deal with mat- ters of general Interest over its wide fleld of circulation. More care and more expense is required to print a paper of this sort, but The Bee has always found it better in the long run. Its readers know that each week it will come with something new and something that is of vaiue to them. IGH COMPLIMENT WAS PAID JOHN B. BARNES this week when the re publicans of Nebraska unanimously” chose him as their candidate for supreme judge. It is an honor rarely bestowed on an individual to be allowed to go before a state convention without opposition, but this honor was given Judge Barnes. In the next number of The Illus- trated Bee a fine picture of Judge Barnes will be found on the front page, and a short account of his busy and sutcessful life in Nebraska will accompany It KNIGMS OF PYTHIAS OF IOWA spent a week at Council Bluffs in at- tendance on the grand lodge of the stute which was in session there several days. Four hundred knights of the Uniform Rank were in camp at the time, and engaged in a competitive drill. The Bee staff photographer made the camp a visit and found material for some splendid plctures, a double page of which will be found In the paper on Sunday. ORK AND WAGES IN RUSSIA" is the topie of Frank G. Carpenter's letter, Mr. Carpenter dealing with an Interesting and little known phase of Russlan industrial activ- ity in his well known style. He imparts a great deal of informa- tion in a most entertaining manner. The article is illustrated from pho- tographs made by Carpenter Russia. in EW SERIAL STORY BEGINS ON SUN- DAY—“The Weary Kings,” a modern romance by Richard Voss. You rust have this from the first number. Then there is the Woman's Department, “The City Beautiful,” another of the municipal lm- provement serles; "A Street Car Conductor's Experience,” a graphic account of the life of a man who bandies the passengers on the trol- ley Mnes; & rumber of interesting and timely pictures; the usual erlsp comment, chatty stories and gos- sipy anecdotes, with more than the usual amount of selected matter and a complete short story. If you are not mow a subscriber, you should leave your order with your news- dealer today. THE ILLUSTRATED BEE Cuban government was ready to conclude\ the formalities connected with the leasing | of the coaling stations in Cuba to the United States. Ratifications were not ex- changed today, but the State department will probably take action In & few days to carry the leases into effect. Miles’ Secretary Promoted. Major Samuel Reber, signal corps general staff officer, has been detalled secretary of the Army War college. He is the son-in- law of Lieutenant General Miles and was tormerly his military secretary. NEW COAST SLEEPER SERVICE Burlington Will Put On Through Cars from Chie: to the Pac The Burlington, it is said, will soon put into use a new through sleeper service from Chicago to the Pacific coast that will afford as good service over that road to the Paci- fie from Chicago as from St. Louls to Port- nd. Bleepers are to be run by way of the Twin Citles 50 s to connect with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and by way of Omaha to make connections with B. & M. trains here. Something Saved, Anyway. Senator Henry Heltfeld of Idaho tells many a good story of the days when he was a “cow puncher” on the plains of Kansas. One day he met a woman who, in summing up her misfortunes, sald: “Yes Mr. Heltfeld, it has been a black year with us. First we lost our baby, and then Martha died on us; then the old man him- self died, and then the cow died, too, poor huzzy! But her hide brought me $."—New York Press. Railroads Are Restrain WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 21.—United States Circult Juige Bradford todsy issued r temporarily restraining the Phila- Baithnore & Washington Railrosd the Delaware Railroad company and the Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Rallroad comi from interfering with roperty of the Western Union Tele- coflm’ Ol\ the right-of-way of oad 'he order of B iters Wil remain tn force natl) the quelllon has been finally decided by the United States BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—A change in commard 11 ani unced at the Presidio. To the Atls commander will now in command t Murdered in His Store. ARDMORE, L T.. Aug. 21.—R. T Lynch, 30 yea & merchant of Caddo, in was murdered in his store Ihfln‘lll right by unkpown persons, Eight shots took effect. Thare u no known motive for the crime, oatsed much sxcitament be f‘olon.l (‘l rlot Mnrrll Fort Mo Steel for Next . BAL/ RE, ‘1 Aug. 2. ~The Balti- e s Sotradis ToaT e tons af elghtv-five-pound llnl ralls pany ons. lx-il\l ~ lnfl company 10, 194 furnish the Maryland | national law will be permitted. YANKEE TROQPS MOEIUZEDF Now; Comes that Hostile Fleet Has Bailed fer Port'and, Maine. ARMY PREPARES TO BATTLE IN MIMIC WAR Navy Must Strike at Wil Seek Defend, PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 2L—Theoretically, a hostile fleet safled from the tropies today to attack Portland, and secret service agents notified the United States govern- ment of the fact. In this way began the mimic war in which detachments of the United States army and the combined fleet of the North Atlantic squadron are to take part during the next ten days. The fleet which is supposed to be sailing towards Portland is really at anchor off Rockland, where it will remain for the two days which would be consumed it it was actually approaching from the tropics. Then the vessels will appear in this harbor and commence operations. In the mean- time, prompted by the Imaginary news this forencon of the advance of the énemy's ships, the army of defense will asemble and prepare itself for the protection of the harbor and the city. The local batteries being the first, natur- ally, to hear the news of threatening danger, responded promptly and by noon all the companies had gone Into camp and taken up active dutles. The First and Second regiments, which constitute the en- tire state militia, started as soon as noti- fied for Portland and were in camp in good season. Before Sunday night additional torces from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York wil be here ready to assist in repulsing the enemy. Major General Chaffee is to command the land for The enemy will be under Rear Admiral Barker. War Game a Pussle. Rear Admiral Barker has received sealed instructions relating to the attack. The contents are unknown to General Chaffee, in command of the army. According to the rules for the maneuvers, the Blues, two squadrons of battleships located at Guan- tanamo and Culebra, are covered by a superfor allied fleet, or Red and Black, when the political situation in the United States is suddenly strained to rupture. A strong Red fleet, Including torpedo boats, safls at 6 p. m. on August 23 from the port of “X,” holding south with sealed orders. The Red fleet at “X" will proceed at onee to Portland and seize and hold the | same as a base of operations. Information of the sailing of the fleet from "X is recelved at Portland six hours after its departure. The time required for | the Red fleet to reach Portland Is fifty-four hours. It will be assumed that prior to the safling of the Red fleet from “X' no channels are mined or obstructed. There- after all enterprises sanctioned by Inter- It 1s de- sirable that the operations of the fleet include all channels of approach to Port- land, embrace a reconnaisance in force and attempt to destroy the mine flelds. There will be a day attack, night attack, and, If feasible, the forcing of a passage. Preparations will be made to resist the attacks by the forts. The period of hostilities lasts from mid- night on. August 2 to noon on August 29. The perfod from midnight August 2 to midnight August 25 is to be known as the period of preparation. my is Reinforced. ROCKLAND, Me, Aug. 21.—Rear Ad- miral Barker's fleet of warships was joined today by four of the torpedo boat destroyers, Truxon, Vorden, Whipple and Laurence. The gunboat Topeka, the collier Marcellus and the United States tug, Ad- miral. A semi-official announcement today seys the fieet will leave here on Sunday to begin the war maneuvers. Rhode Island Defended. NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 21.—Tomorrow is set for the time for the troops in the va- rious forts in this district to go into camp on a war footing and from that time on for a week drills will be carried on as | though a state of war existed. This is in conjunction with the joint war games off the coast of Maine, and although |1t is not expected that any of the enemy's | ships will make their appearance off New- port the troops will be ready to repel any attack on the land if one Is made. GOSSIP OF COMMISSION ROW Old-Fashioned Sweet Potatoes from Virginia Mel from Mor- mon State. Lovers of sweet potatoes, of the regu- lar old. hioned sweet potatoes, from whe they have grown just because they want to ever since the days of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, may satisfy their appetites next week. For unless it runs off the track, a car load of Virginia “sweets” will be on the market Monday morning, and three-bushel barrels will sell for 8.7 The unusually high price of home-grown sweet potatoes makes the shipping of them from the Old Dominion possible, something which has not been true at this season for several years. A car of fine cantaloupes from Fayette- ville, Utah, which arrived Thursday, has about been cleaned up at $2.50 per crate. There are, however, plenty of other can- taloupes on the market, and also plenty of watermelons. The latter are fine and large, and about the best of them can be had at 20 cents. A car of California Bart- lett pears which arrived Thursday mora- Ing was cleared up in twenty-four hours at 8250 per box. Peaches are still very stiff, and the prediction mads a week ago that they would be below $1 at this time proved erroneous. In fact, the Santa Clara qual- ity shows a tendency to advance above the §1 mark, and it is now declared that those who'intend putting up peaches this year may as well buy now, as they will not probably be any lower. Of home-grown produce there w market alfl along the line, and a perfect flood of apples. Whether It is because they are not of a quality to stand packing or not is not known. But for some reason apples have been rushed to market the past week. They sold at all kinds of prices, one load going at % cents a bushel. Corn was § cents & dozen, an advance of 1 cent over Thursday. Other prices were: Tomatoes, 25 cents a basket; potatoes, & to T cents a bushel; green peppers, % cents & basket; beans, 20 to % cents a bas- ket; cabbage, 25 to 40 cents a dosen; onlons, T cents a bushel; grapes, 35 cents a basket. So many cucumbers were on the market that they sold part of the time at any price offered. STRUCK BY OMAHA THRIFT a big yivania Guests of Gate City. General James A. Beaver, ex-governor and supreme court justice of Pennsylvania, is in the city enroute homeward from an extended visit through southern California, John M. Dale, of Bellfonte, Pa. General Beaver was somewhat indisposed upon reaching Omaha, from a change of watsr and climate, and has been confined to his room at the Iler Grand while here. Mr. Dale said of their visit “We have had a most enjoyable time and were particularly delighted with the great fruit reglous of southern Californfa. Yet I must admit that while the California fruits are unexceptional in appearance and beauty, the result of irrigation, yet they do not possess the deliclous flavor of our eastern fruits, nor of the semi-tropical fruita_produced in Florida, where irriga- tion s unnecessary. “This is my frst visit to Omaha, and you certainly have a vey handsome and progressive looking city. 1 like eastern Nebraska much the best of any country we have meen In our travels. It looks more thrifty. “Oh, yes, you can be assured that Penn- sylvania will give jts electoral vote for President Roosevelt in 1904 “Trouble still prevails in the anthracite districts of our state. Arbitration has not accomplished much as yet. There is & manifest spirit of dissatisfaction among the miners and strikes are occurring there constantly. You folks out here have not the remotest Idea of the troubles we en- dured during the prevalence of the big strike. We virtually suffered for want of coal and it could not be obtained under any conditions or terms. “The ofl production of Pennsylvania 18 reduced to the minimum now and it figures very little in oll production. A half barrel of oll froni two or three hours pumping is the rule in some of the wells now that a few years ago spouted hundreds of barrels. The same is true of the exhaustion of the natural gas wells. Gas s used very little now in the manufactories. Some is used in private houses for heating purposes, but that supply is slowly and surely dimin- ishing. The fron Industries are greater than ever and Pennsylvania will always hold its own as the greatest manufacturing common- wealth of the world. Our anthracite and bituminous coal flelds are practically In- exhaustible.” MOUNTAINS TAKE THEIR TOLL Mountain Climbers im the Al the Penalty of Foolhardy Explol Pay The fact that 150 men and women have fallen to their death In the Alps already this season, with possibly three or four weeks and several mountains yet to hear trom, will not deter, more's the pity, one human being from attempting the ascent of the master summits of Europe another year. When a man has once heard the great mountain top a-calling, “why, he von't 'eed nothing else.” He must go. “Over the mountain tops there is rest,” sald the great German poet. But in the heart of the earthly collector of mountain tops there broods nothing but unrest until he has accomplished the particular feat of climbing which his soul craves—or until he has broken his neck. A cause of great trouble and sorrow to the world is that many people are seized by the overmastering desire to climb great mountains who are unfit for the work. The lives of these people are the tax which the Alps take in toll. There stands Mont Blanc, its “bald awful head” 15779 feet above Chamouni. Now 16,779 feet are less than three miles—about the distance from the Battery to Madison square. Of course, it is & little steeper; but why should not an able-bodied man or woman be able to walk 1t? Reasoning thus without rea- son, many merely able-bodled men and women undertake to climb Mont Blanc or some other grpgt mouptain of the Alps, and 150 such have fallen off the steeps and pald with their lives the penalty of their folly this very summer. The fact is that it takes rather more than an able body, rather, more than an average able mind, to climb a great moun- tain. Two miles up in the alr—one mile up in the air—may mean great ravines, cataracts, torrents, flerce rocks and awful chasms. One such mile may require the coolest nerve, the most resolute determina- tion, the most intrepid bravery, as well as the solidest muscles. Indeed, lives have often been lost on little cliffs of 500 feet, and lost from the sheer bodily or nervous inabllity of the climber to stand the test of a nearly perpendicular rood of distance. . When one gets the hunger for mountain tops upon him, it is useless for him to re- sist. Let him climb and be happy. But by all means let him climb according to his strength. Let the average man try old Slide mountain in Ulster county, or the romantic slopes of Lafayette, or the breezy westward-looking front of Camel's Hump, und shun the jce-falls and blacken: Jagged rocks of the Alpine soverelgn. That way lles death for all but the strongest and bravest.—New York Mail and Express. BACHELORS ROAR MIGHTILY Hammond's H Lonesomes Resent El to Drive Them Matrimony. Bachelots of Hammond, Ind., are up in arms because of Mayor Knott's proclama- tlon that single men in the Indiana town should marry in order that Industrial peace might be attained. The Bachelors' club yes- terday adopted sarcastic resolutions as a result, and the mayor is now the butt for any number of cynical fllugs. “Look back & few years,” say the bache- lors, “to the time when you were childless and wifeless and in no position to take upon yourself the burden of making and keeping a home. This is only one of the caustic bits of ad- vice offered the mayor. President Frank L. Susemihl, at the meet- ing of the Bachelors' club recently ap- pointed Dr. J. E. Davis, a young dentist, and Charles Cormany, an insurance agent, to draft resolutions.. The result of their labors follows: Whereas, Mayor Armanis F. Knotts of Hammond wishes the manufacturers of this clty to discriminate against unmarried men in their employ in favor of the man with & home Whereas, However willing we are at pres- ent to MATTY We cannot get wives as we can new shoes or hats, for they are pearls with- out fi”“ that money cannot buy, and Whereas. We recognize that the married man does his share in the upbuflding of the community we 106k with favor upon the idea that we are to lose our jobs because of the pres Je of the benedict, therefore be it Resolved. That we petition_the manufac- turers to carefully consider Mayor Knotts' proposition before they take action upon it and dismiss us from their employ, and be ft further Resolved, That we implore the bachelors of Hammond to get & move on themselves 1l they can for the ma: ces of the peace In bu ting homes for themselve further Resolved, That we ask his honor to go back a few years and remember the time when he was childless and wifeleas and in no position to take upon himseif the burden of making and keeping up a home. In Chicago there was unanimity of opin- fon. In every case Mayor Knott's position was declared untenable ~Chicago Inter Ocean. How to De The proprietor of the theater had died suddenly. “Of course we must do something to show our proper respe:t” remarked the treasurer. “Certainly,” returned the manager, “Shall we close the theater for a night or two?" -0. Business is too good. 1 guess other Pacific coast points and Colorado. He | we'd better put the chorus in black tights is accompanied by bis law partoer, Hon. llo« about thirty days.”—Chicago Post. [TRUTHS ARE OFTEN FAUSE Danger of Placing Too Much Reliance on Cironmstantial Evidence. HONEST WITNESSES SOMETIMES DECEIVED shed for Crimes of Which They Were Innocent—Cases Show- ing Fallibility of Such Evidence. Consideration of the nature of clrcumstane tial evidence and of the principles on which 1t 18 founded caused one of the most learned lawyers of Washington to express himself very plainly while speaking of a compara- tively recent mysterious murder, He said that in all cases charitable feelings should keep alive all doubts of gullt until fully proved. He contends that the fallibility of ciroumstantial evidence has not been rare, even in cases where common sense could have no doubt. Where there exists the moral possibility that the eriminal act may have been committed by any person the safest course, according to his observations, is to give the suspect the benefit of the doubt. “Our people,” sald the attorney, “should be guarded in such matters. Every lover of law wishes the gullty to be punished, but none wishes the innocent to sufter. I can now recall a number of interesting cases in which eircumstantial evidence played an im- portant part, and I want to say that while medical and sclentific assistance have been evidently useful in getting down to facts, they are not always infallible. A man was stabbed by another in the face; & Knif with blade entire, was brought forward a evidence against the prisoner at the tria the surgeon swore that the wound must have been caused by the identical knife, and the prisoner was heavily fined. The wounded man recovered, but a year after ward a fistula fermed in the face, and the broken point of the real weapon was dis- charged from the sinus. This was proof positive that the wound was not made by the knife exhibited by the surgeon. /Blood Stains May Mislead. “Take the question of blood staln—a ques- tion which always figures largely in trials now. These stains have often been taken as proot conclusive against the accused. It Is sald that the aclence of chemistry can ascertain when stains are blood or vegeta- ble, and human blood can be distinguished from that of animal. % man was accused of having murdered an uncle, to whom he was helr. The knife which was brought in evidence against him was stained with dark spots declared to be blood. Science showed that the blade had been used the day before for cutting a lemon, and as it had not been wiped the acid acting on the metal had caused the appearance of blood stain. Nothing is more common than stains resembling blood, and there are many on whose person or instruments such have been found who would have met the fate of murderers had thev not been living in times of scientific discoveries. A few years since a man was arrested on suspicion of murder. The collar and upper part of his shirt were stained with large spots of deep pinkish color, which appeared like blood that had been attempted to be washed out, but none of the color was discharged by the application of water, and being turned of a light crimson by ammonia it wi proved not to be blood. The staln was ac- counted for by its being shown that the accused had worn a red handkerchjet around his neck during a rain. Every stain which resembles blood is not blood. Might Have Been a Murder, “A very remarkable case was where two friends went out to Oregon on a hunting expedition. They slept together one night at the home of a rettler near Portland. During the night one of the men was re- newing his chase in his dreams and imagin- ing himself present at the death of a stag cried out, ‘Tl kill him! I'll kill him? The other, awakened by the nolse, sprang from the bed and by the light of the moon beheld the sleeper give several deadly stabs on the pillow from which his companion and bosom friend had just taken his head. Sup- pose a death blow had been given in this way and it had been shown that the two men had been known to have quarreled be- fore? Murder in the first degree? Well, yes. “Many years ago a gentleman visited the British museum and requested the attend- ant who was with him to permit him to ex- amine a certain old and valuable coin. The attendant opened the drawer of colns and pointing to the coln sald that it was the only one of that stamp. The gentleman asked If he was sure of that and was told that he was. The visitor requested leave to take it in his hand, and after examining it closely placed it back in the drawer. The gentleman had scarcely reached the street before he was overtaken by the a tendant, who demanded that he return the coln. The gentleman told him that he ha replaced it in the drawer. The attendant declared that he would be forced to search him; that the coin was missing and he must have it. Vehemently the gentleman de- clared that he did not have the coln and that he would not be searched until a thor- ough examination was made of the drawe: ‘With the attehdant he returned to the museum and, the drawer being unlocked, the coin was found In a crack into which it had slipped. Anof Case. “But another one about hunters: A fleld hand was found dead, with a fearful gash In his head. Tt was known that the man who worked with him was his enemy. It was short work making a conviction, and the poor fellow was jerked to eternity at the end of a rope. Many years afterward a rich planter confessed that while out hunting his hounds had run a rabbit through the fleld and the laborer had spoken roughly to him about trespassing on the grounds. The planter was on his horse and cut at the man with his riding whip, and in dodgin the whip the laborer had fallen, striking his head on a shovel which stood near. The fall was of sufficient force to cause a fractured skull, from which injuries the poor fellow died. When the planter discov- ered what had been the result of his anger in striking at the man he left the field, and it was not until on his deathbed (hat he made a confession “A surgeon well known in socfety and In the medical and surgical world was found gullty of murdering hi# kitchen maid. She was found dead in the dining room: a sur- gloal instrument, blood-stained, was found on the floor, and In & cormer of the room was a shirt completely saturated with blood. The shirt was marked with the initals of the surgeon; the surgical instru- ment was his beyond question; his family was out of the city; there was no one home save himself and the maid, and, of course, everybody belleved that he had killed her. There was also a living witness; an elderly woman, residing just across the street, tes- tifled at the coroner's inquest that she had been at her window all day and that she had seen the surgeon enter the house, pull down the shades of the windows in the dining room, and that he had not come out before dark—it was morning when the dead body of the mald was discov Hanged for Another's Acefdent, ““With such evidence there was nothing to do but hang the man, and he banged Years afterward s man confessed that he was present when the mald accidentally killed herself. and, belleving that he would have been charged with tne murder, he left the house and said nothing about it. 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The man was the maid's sweetheart and she had been in the habit of letting him visit her, entering the house through the rear yard. He sald that on the night in question he had asked her for a kiss, and whea she refused him he attempted to take it by force, she at the time being en- gaged in cleaning the Instruments for her master. In ihe struggle she fell to the floor, the surgical Instrument which she beld in her hand piercing her side, causing almost instant death. He tried to stop the flow of blood with the shirt, but finding that he could not do so he kissed the fast dying girl and left."—Washington Post. HOW BIG TREASURES VANISH Fam; Sculptures, Paint Jewels that Have Mysteri- ously Disap The greatest treasure In sculpture the ‘world has ever known is imperfect, and the plece missing—a right arm—would bring the finder in & king's ransom, so may be termed a treasure in itself. This arm, of course, belongs to the Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre at Paris, and twenty-elght vears «go It turned up In England, and wi proved by experts to be the genuine arm of the Venus. The owner, however, refused to part with it, and concealed it somewhere lest It should be stolen by thieves. When he dled he left no record as to where the arm was hidden, and from that day to this Its resting place has remained a mystery. Somewhere there is an old bronze drink- ing cup which would easily realize £220,000 it put on the market. It is the famous bronze bow! found in Egypt a century and a half ago, on which was engraved the an- clent history of the Pharaohs. It was stolen from an Egyptian temple in 1739 and brought to Europe. From that time it miraculously disappeared, and forty years later the French government offered £2,800 for its discovery, but the famous cup had vanished In all probability forever., Great pictures have an unhappy knack ot disappearing, and vidual who same across Sir Joshua Rey- nold's “Countess of Derby,” for it would realize £30,00. This was acknowledged to be Reynolds' greatest portrait, but not long after it was painted it disappeared from the earl of Derby's collection and has never since been heard of. There are also two Vandykes and a Rembrandt missing for which the National gallery would willingly pay £40,000, and no doubt the sarl of Crewe would give a four-figure reward to any one ‘who restored the Cupid cut by some vandal from the picture of & former countess of Crewe and her son, who was painted as the II% sprite. t a century ago the Italian ,govern- ment offered £10,000 to any one who would rediscover the Florentine chalice. This is & goblet of green Venetian glass, made in he sixteenth century for the pope, and en- graved with a picture of the resurrection Its manufacture is said to have occupied two years, and the secret of the glass, which was thinner than paper, is lost. The cup was stolen from the Vatican, but no one came forward to claim the offered re- ward, and the probabilities are that the cup has been smashed. A similar treasure, which vanished in an equally strange manner, was the Marsella vase of Dresden china. It is the only plece of china missing from the famous Marsella collection, the value of which is set down at £15,000, and it bears upom it the cross arrows and a lion's head. A few years ago the vase was said to be In the north of England, and it is safe to assert that if any one rediscovers it ho can command a price running well into four figures. Probably in some lumber room in this country there is an old sword which, If the owner only knew it, s worth a couple of thousand pounds. It was the state sword presented by the nation to Edward III, and at oné time the hilt was studded with large rubles, but these disappeared long before the weapon followed them into obscurity some years ago. Any oné of our mational Good solicitors to represent us at state and county fairs, carnivals and stock shows. To those who are successful at the work, a permanent position with an sssured good income will be given. Century Karmer booth in new Live Stock Pavilion, State IFair Grounds, Des Moines, or on E. R. McClellan, Des Moines, from seven to eight Call at Twentieth museums would purchase the sword for the sum mentioned, while it is not unlikely that in a public auction room the bidding would rise cven 1igher.—London Malil. SULTAN OF SULU A SPORT Likes to Race His Ponles Against Thewe Owned by Amer- lean Oficers. After three years of service as a surgeon of the United States army in the Phillp- pines, Dr. B. R. Tenney of Kansas City, Kan., has returned to his home. The sultan of Sulu, as described by Dr. Tenney, is hardly the sort of potentate plctured in comic opera. He is a very ordinary individual, who lives in a very ordinary way. and does about as all the rest of the Sulus do. “The sultan of Sulu assumes control over all tie Mcros,” Dr. Tenney sald, “but in reality he has no conjrol over any but those who thoo.e to follow him. I roet the sultan on several occasions and was treated very cordially by him. He s not A man of great strength of character or ‘ntelligence, but possesses craft and cun- ning. The greatest man In the sultan's domain is Hajl Butu, the prime minister. “I visited the suitan in his hothe at Mia- bon, directly across the island of Suly from the town of Jolo. It is a very ordimary house—nothing llke a great palace—and only a little better than the average native rome. He has four legal wives and & fine string of ponies. “His chief sport is to bring down his ponies and race them against the army officers’ ponies, with such side attractions as spear dances, accompanied by gongs, tomtoms and native drums. These are the musical instruments of the Sulus, for the Sulus are not a musical people like the Filipinos. “The sultan sometimes wears European clothes, and while he entertains his guests wvery nicely after his own fashion, he sel- dom gives a feast. Thé datos, or feudal lords, however, sometimes prepare feasts for their guests of sugars, fried bananas, rice cakes, heavy and fried In cocoanut oll, with native chocolate as a beverage. The Bulus are Mohammedans and they have no Intoxicating beverages. They chew the betel nut, which blackens the teeth and takes the place of tobacco, and an fmpor- tant part of a Sulu's outfit is a betel nut box, borne by a slave. The women are pe: mited to chew the betel nut after they are married, and they marry at from 14 to 18 years of age."—Kansas City Star. Woman and Rat fn Battle. Mrs. Irving Shultis of South Canaan, Conn., had a fight with a rat and was badly bitten on the foot and hand. The rat is dead. For some time past Mrs. Shultis’ chicks have been disappearing with regularity, and investigation showed that they usually disappeared through a large rat hole in one corner of the coop. The woman set a trap, but in vain. Up to date the rat had disposed of sixty of the 130 chicks owned by Mrs. Shultis. Mrs Shultis was conversing with Dea- con Morse when both heard a commotion in the coop. Mrs. Shuitls arrived in time to see & huge rat running toward a hole with his teeth In a chick's wing. The woman set her foot on the rat's tail, whereupon it turned and bit her foot, But she pounded the rat's head with h clenched fist. This made the rat lot go the foot and bite her hand. 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